Fake news? It’s real. I mean, there really is such a thing as fake news.
So why not some fake commentary? And your Squire just the man for the job!

Acceding to the wishes of the indentured servants here at The Stately Manor, we fired up the old Philco Monday and endured an orgy of cable TV talking heads, panelists, and bloviators. Hey, if The Capital Times can claim that it is their opinion that various and sundry Koch Brothers have been silencing free speech on our college campuses than the proprietor of the Policy Werkes (express drive-thru windows are open) can conjure his.

The fake news of the day is that Donald Trump gave Alaska back to the Russians.

No? What? Oh, sorry. The fake news was that the President gave Natasha and Boris the Colonel’s secret recipe, along with a cereal box decoder ring.

Apparently something to do with how ISIS brought down a Russian plane over Chaldea. Not how we got the info or from whom but newsy bits that might help Russia beat back ISIS, which might also help the U.S. and the people of Chaldea.

That such information is and remains classified does not mean it cannot be shared, only that it cannot be shared indiscriminately. That Russia and the U.S. might have common interests was broached during the late election campaign. Donald Trump won. He is the President, despite your Squire’s efforts for Evan (Who?) McMullen.

He is the decider.

But CNN (once dubbed the Clinton News Network) is rousting every Obama operative for some high-level hyperventilation. Take a look at this line-up on the CNN website and know that the prolific use of the word “some” is here largely a synonym for Democrats when it’s not actually naming Democrats in the headline.

You know CNN has the long knives sharpened when it makes a news story out of a foul-mouthed late-night TV comedian’s pronouncement: “Colbert to Trump: Please resign.” Steven Col-BERTTT is not Walter Cronkite.

Dave, this is complete nonsense. FDR shared intel with Stalin during WW2? What has that got to do with anything? Yes, classified info can be shared, with friends and even not-so-much-friend allies when it’s in our best interest. When it’s done carefully, methodically, by intelligence professionals who have a clue about what’s going on. But by an insecure, boastful know-nothing in the Oval Office, to an active adversary? Who said know-nothing has a most curious and inexplicable affinity for? Bad, bad, bad idea. Can’t believe you’re defending it. Are you on Putin’s payroll, TOO?
As to CNN rolling out the Dems for comment, your party’s leadership aren’t exactly being quotable Profiles in Courage right now, are they? They either poo-poo the chaos and scandal (McConnell) or hide (Ryan).
I almost won’t even bother to point out the now tired trope that if a Democrat was enmeshed in even a fraction of the scandal your guy is, all your heads would be exploding. But instead we hear…pretty much nothing.

Hey, where are all the AnonyBob-haters who usually pounce on every word I write? ‘Splat? Dave, not B? Blaska? Bueller?
Kind of hard to defend the indefensible, eh? Time to move back to the more comfortable “Madison Cops vs. the Blacks and the Liberals” meme.

ABob whaddaya think about Truman telling Stalin we had the ABomb?
Please spew not your spittle of hatred on me. I don’t hate you. What would be the point? Who would profit from that? Ever seen someone on a debate team throwing a punch? Me either but I would guess that meant the aggressor had lost the debate.
I’m unclear as to what indefensible thing you want someone to defend.

Asking for a friend

Mike Huckabee asks: What would a federal judge do if Jim Acosta challenged him in his courtroom, argued and refused to give up the microphone when a bailiff tried to retrieve it?

Unmet needs?

‘Got anything for us?’

MidTown 8:25 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18 — Officers met with a victim (26-year-old AAM) who reported being approached by two AAMs, one AAF and one WF (possibly all juveniles) as he was waiting for a bus. The victim stated the “juveniles” asked him if he had anything for them. The victim said he referred to them as “kids” which caused the two AAM’s to batter him. The suspects fled. The victim sustained visible injuries, including a chipped tooth.

Someone (could) DID get hurt like this!

11:35 p.m. Nov. 17 — A Fitchburg police officer spotted a Subaru Forrester that was listed as stolen through MPD. The vehicle took off when a stop was initiated. The vehicle ended up crashing into an unoccupied house near Allied Dr, located within the City of Madison. The house sustained heavy damage and the vehicle was totaled. All three occupants were transported to the hospital.

The suspect driver was a 16-year-old AAM, whose injuries were unknown at the time of this entry. A 14-year-old AAF passenger sustained a broken arm. A 14-year-old AAM passenger had a fractured/dislocated hip and will be admitted for surgery. Fitchburg PD took the vehicle for evidence in their investigation and MPD took the crash investigation.

Even MORE school-to-prison at La Follette H.S.

Friday’s Disturbance — 3:44 pm. Nov. 16 — The La Follette High School Educational Resource Officer was outside monitoring students when a suspect (30-year-old AAF) began yelling threats from the street at school staff. The suspect’s daughter (14-year-old AAF) threw a water bottle at a group of students in front of the school and then fled with her mother in a vehicle. Officers performed a traffic stop on the vehicle and while officers attempted to detain the suspects, an additional passenger/suspect (16-year-old AAF) was arrested for interfering. The 30-year-old suspect was conveyed to the Dane County Jail while the teenagers were cited for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Tuesday’s disturbance — 9:55 a.m. Nov. 13 — School Resource Officer (SRO) at La Follette High School asked for additional resources as a disturbance was breaking out in the commons area of the school.